HOLDEN – A week after voters said no to the proposed $13.66 million public safety building, town officials are pondering what the next step is to replace the aging fire and police stations. Last Tuesday, voters decisively rejected a request to borrow $12.86 million through a 20-year debt exclusion to...

HOLDEN – Dan Ricciardi stood at the podium in Holy Cross’ Rehm Library on April 26 and faced his audience. There were his parents, front and center, friends, advisors and professors, all there to hear him present his treatise as the Fenwick Scholar, one of the college’s highest honors. “Possession...